It certainly tagged along with Unix but with 16-bit systems like the IBM PC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga, it began to take over. We had safe languages like Pa

It certainly tagged along with Unix but with 16-bit systems like the IBM PC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga, it began to take over. We had safe languages like Pascal and Modula-2 at that point but computers weren't networked back then and programmers cared more about saving a few CPU cycles than having more stable programs. Today we know how dangerous C is for online security. Sure, safe code can be written in C but it's a lot more work for the programmer than using a language that is designed to be safe. It's good to see Rust come along and I'm hopeful to see safety being added to existing and new languages.